Overview

What is Human Rights Studies?

Human Rights are predicated upon the belief that every human being deserves to be treated with equal dignity, and that every person has inherent value. But how do we move towards these goals?
Human Rights Studies interrogate how we fulfill these ideals, but also how we fail to do so in different times and places.

It equips Western University - Canada students with the intellectual and practical skills they need to explore, understand, and act-to become protagonists in the equal granting of all human beings the status and the rights associated with their being.

What will I study?

This is a new collaborative degree program that integrates approaches from across the disciplines to provide students with critical understanding of, and experience in, the growing field of human rights.

These are the most fundamental rights and freedoms belonging to all human beings, including equality, dignity, the right to work and to education, and freedom of opinion and expression. The United Nations declares that “everyone is entitled to these rights, without discrimination.”
Using a cross-disciplinary approach, Human Rights Studies at King’s equips students to understand and to critique the effectiveness of legal, diplomatic and political frameworks that have been employed to protect human rights.
The program also examines how different groups have understood and fought for expanded rights protection throughout history.
Topics include women’s rights; the rights of minorities; refugees and displaced persons; Indigenous rights; and remedies for human rights violations in domestic and international law.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Discovering Human Rights
Rights in Canada
Human Rights in Social Political Thought
Social and Political Thought
Global Literatures in English Survey
Canadian Immigration History: The Politics, The Policy and The People

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-09-03 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-15 00:00:00

Language

English

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Credits

15 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

London, Canada

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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General requirements

High school pre-requisites for the faculty/program to which they are applying,
English language requirements if applicable,
The strength of mandatory supplemental information (profile, audition, portfolio, personal statement etc.),
Completion of the entire Diploma including the Theory of Knowledge and Extended Essay
Passes in a minimum of 6 subjects of which 3 must be at the Higher Level
A minimum grade total of 28 including points awarded for the Extended Essay and Theory of Knowledge
No mark less than 4 on any individual course
Prerequisites for your program as specified by Western

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Tuition Fees

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46110 CAD / year

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6050 CAD / year

≈ 6050 CAD / year

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Ontario Residents: $6,050

Living costs

London

Canada

1037 - 1625 CAD / month

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